Work restarts after six-storey fall

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Work has resumed today at the site where a teenage construction worker fell six storeys in central Auckland yesterday.

The 17-year-old was working at the top of AUT's new Design and Creative Technologies building when he fell from the 12th floor to the sixth.

The teenager remains in a critical condition at Auckland City Hospital today.

The construction worker was employed by a sub-contractor of Fletcher Construction which is carrying out work on the Mayoral Dr project.

A Fletcher Construction spokesman said a karakia was carried out at the site this morning after it was handed back by police and the Department of Labour.

The spokesman said police had told the company the accident wasn't "suspicious".

A St John Ambulance north communications team leader Brett Tobeck said yesterday that the teenager was "very lucky to be alive".

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